The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical accuracy.

The African Union is advocating against the traditional Mercator map used by governments and organizations. Criticized for distorting the size of continents, it misrepresents Africa's true stature.

Map projection is illustrated, and major types of map projections are presented. Relating Earth's surface coordinate systems to popularly used systems in referencing locations in our societies, such ...

Reimagining Maps: Africa's Push to Redraw the World The African Union is advocating for the adoption of a new map projection that accurately represents Africa's size. The Mercator map distorts the ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a modern map that shows Africa’s true size.

The Mercator projection fosters a false impression that Africa is marginal, an African Union official said.

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it seem smaller.

The Correct the Map campaign, endorsed by the African Union, advocates for this map projection to help counteract misperceptions fed by projections like the Mercator map.

Policy analyst Bright Simons has questioned the African Union’s (AU) call for the world to ditch the Mercator map projection, arguing that the bloc often pursues geo-politics without the ...

This article presents a projection algorithm based on the representation of radar samples as area elements, rather than point elements as traditionally done in previous works. Each area element in the ...

The West Virginia Department of Tourism has released its anticipated fall foliage projection map that predicts when and where the foliage will appear across the state. (Courtesy of the West ...